MPAA Rating: R/Genre: Dystopian War-Action/Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Nick Offerman, Nelson Lee, Evan Lai, Sonoya Mizuno, Jefferson White, Juani Feliz, Edmund Donovan, Karl Glusman, Jin Ha, Jojo T. Gibbs, Jesse Plemons, Jess Matney/Runtime: 109 minutes Among the many tricks that the land of movie…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Cujo “83”
MPAA Rating: R/Genre: Horror/Stars: Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh-Kelly, Christopher Stone, Ed Lauter, Kaiulani Lee, Billy Jacoby, Mills Watson, Jerry Hardin, Sandy Ward, Arthur Rosenberg/Runtime: 93 minutes If there is anything that I have had the privilege of learning through the power of books (or bundles of paper with…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Dark City “98”
MPAA Rating: R/Genre: Neo-Noir Sci-Fi/Stars: Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O’Brien, Ian Richardson, Bruce Spence, Colin Friels, John Bluthal, Mitchell Butel, Melissa George, Frank Gallacher, Ritchie Singer, Justin Monjo, Nicholas Bell, Satya Gumbert, Frederick Miragliotta, Jeanette Cronin, David Wenham, Bill Highfield, Darren Gilshenan, Terry Bader, Rosemary…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The First Omen “2024”
MPAA Rating: R/Genre: Supernatural Horror/Stars: Nell Tiger Free, Sônia Braga, Ralph Ineson, Bill Nighy, Tawfeek Barhom, Maria Caballero, Nicole Sorace, Ishtar Currie Wilson, Andrea Arcangeli, Charles Dance/Runtime: 119 minutes I think it’s safe to say that, among the many movies shown to me by my father when I was growing…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Predator 2 “90”
MPAA Rating: R/Genre: Sci-Fi Action/Stars: Danny Glover, Kevin Peter Hall, Gary Busey, Rubén Blades, María Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton, Lilyan Chauvin, Robert Davi, Adam Baldwin, Kent McCord, Steve Kahan, Henry Kingi, Morton Downey Jr., Calvin Lockhart, Sylvia Kauders, Billy “Sly” Williams, Jsu Garcia (Credited as Nick Corri), Michael Wiseman, Teri…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Godzilla Minus One “2023”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/Genre: Epic Kaiju/Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Sae Nagatani, Mio Tanaka, Yuya Endo, and Godzilla as himself/Runtime: 125 minutes When you had the weird childhood that I did (Disney movies with Mom and seemingly everything else through either…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Day After “83”
MPAA Rating: TV-PG/ Genre: Sci-Fi/ Stars: Jason Robards, Steve Guttenberg, JoBeth Williams, Georgann Johnson, Kyle Aletter, John Cullum, Bibi Besch, Lori Lethin, Doug Scott, Ellen Anthony, William Allen Young, Calvin Jung, John Lithgow, Amy Madigan, Lin McCarthy, Rosanna Huffman, George Petrie, Jonathan Estrin, Wayne Knight, Arliss Howard, Jeff East, Dennis…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Pacific Rim “2013”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/Genre: Sci-Fi Monster/Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Ron Perlman, Robert Kazinsky, Max Martini, Clifton Collins Jr., Burn Gorman, Diego Klattenhoff, Robert Maillet, Heather Doerksen, Joe Pingue, Santiago Segura, Brad William Henke, Larry Joe Campbell, Robin Thomas, Julian Barnes, David Richmond-Peck, Sebastian Pigott, Joshua Peace,…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Stir of Echoes “99”
MPAA Rating: R/Genre: Supernatural Horror/Stars: Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Zachary David Cope, Illeana Douglas, Jennifer Morrison, Liza Weil, Kevin Dunn, Lusia Strus, Chalon Williams, Conor O’Farrell, Steve Rifkin, Eddie Bo Smith Jr./Runtime: 99 minutes Among the list of unusual phenomena that have been known to occur throughout the long and…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: A Simple Plan “98”
MPAA Rating: R/Genre: Neo-Noir Crime Thriller/Stars: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Brent Briscoe, Gary Cole, Jack Walsh, Chelcie Ross, Becky Ann Baker/Runtime: 121 minutes If there was ever a list made of the most comedically erroneous statements that we as people tend to say more often than we…